New, Revised, and Discontinued USPTO Mail Stops Effective Immediately

From http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/opla/preognotice/mspostissue.pdf on April 28, 2004:

 

Effective immediately, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has established a new mail stop, Mail Stop Post Issue, and several mail stops have been deleted, or changed.

 

Correspondence that should be directed to Mail Stop Post Issue includes correspondence in applications that have issued as a patent, such as requests for changes of address (other than a fee address, which should be addressed to Mail Stop M Correspondence), powers of attorney, revocations of powers of attorney, withdrawal of attorney, and submissions under 37 CFR 1.501.

 

The mail stops that should no longer be used are: Mail Stop Application Number; Mail Stop CPA; Mail Stop Design; Mail Stop Non-Fee Amendment; Mail Stop Patent Application; and Mail Stop Provisional Patent Application. Correspondence that would have been addressed to these mail stops no longer needs a specific mail stop.

 

Mail Stop Non-Fee Amendment has been changed to Mail Stop Amendment.

 

Mail Stop PGPUB-ABD has been changed to Mail Stop Express Abandonment and all requests and petitions for an express abandonment under 37 CFR 1.138 should be directed to this mail stop.

 

For the latest correspondence addresses and and fax numbers go to http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/opla/
preognotice/addresschange.htm and note that "Only the specified type of document should be placed in an envelope addressed to [any] of these special mail stops. If any documents other than the specified type identified for each special mail stop are addressed to that mail stop, they will be significantly delayed in reaching the appropriate area for which they are intended. If no mail stop is included on the list below, then no mail stop is required for the correspondence. The mail stop should generally appear as the first line in the address."